I have built a simple silverlight app that stores the webcam captured images to the filesystem, my requirement is to store them locally in a sql server database located on a tablet so they can now or later be uploaded to a server when the network is available, this program needs to work offline. I have found the code for most of the application except the part that stores information and images to the database. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
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I working on my school project.My project purpose is movie rating application with ionic.When I will present my application on the phone.I need to get data on the internet.So I have to use cloud system for keep in web service and sql database.Oh also I will using sql database.I want to build database and web service on the azure.But its my first time for azure.How can I migrate my sql database to azure and how can I create web service in azure.Im rookie these things.I need a starting point.I searched on the web but cant find a good tutorial :(
If your SQL Database and WebService structure is not a requirement, you can also explore other options such as Mobile Apps. Mobile apps is a workload on Azure specifically built for such scenarios to connect with mobile devices and two way data communication. It uses what is called "Table storage" on Azure. You can start with that and later on move to a no-sql database such as DocumentDB for persistent storage and querying.
You can find a step by step tutorial below on how to create the Mobile apps and connect it to different platform such as Windows Phone, Android or iPhone. The link here is for Android. If you wish to use other platforms you can use the tab to switch to them. It will even give you a sample project that you can download and run directly which can get you started pretty quickly. I also have a blog post around this if you are interested.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-mobile-android-get-started/
Hope this helps!
I had a engineer design our .net application back in 2009, my guess is that it was coded using visual studio, and all I have is the installer application. We have been using it on our 1 or 2 local client machines very well for the past few years, but now I want to move this front end to the cloud. Instead of installing it as an application on our windows 7 machines.
It is a very simple application used in our small warehouse that keeps track of cargo/shipments etc. It uses Sql Server 2008 Express as a backend which is stored locally.
I know how to get the database in the cloud, their are many options for that, using Amazon or Azure, but how do i get the local client application to the cloud?
I dont have access to the visual studio code, i just have the runtime executable file..
I am sure there is no way to do this, and many of SO users will say i need to re-write the front end.
I have tried to contact the developer and they hav since closed down. Is their anyway i can run this in the cloud?
I welcome all options and solutions!
Thanks.
I believe you have two options for hosting this application:
If you are able to configure the database connection string, you could host the database in the cloud, and distribute the application to your end users. However, you've already stated that you know how to move the database, so I assume this isn't an option.
The only alternative is to run the entire application on a cloud server, and send the user interface to a client using terminal services. This makes it appear as if the application is running locally on the user's computer, while it is actually running on the server.
For an off-the-shelf solution to achieve this, you could consider using Microsoft's RemoteApp Azure service. I'm sure there are other similar offerings available.
I am looking for a free DNN community edition website Backup and restore procedure working with DNN 7 and SQL server express 2008 r2.
I usually design and develop website in local PC as my connection speed to the actual server is low. And then I want to publish (deploy) the result in the server. I may need to repeat this procedure a few times as our website is always under development and I need to add new pages or update the existing ones.
I use DNN 7 community edition. I have already googled and have found plenty of commercial tools for this backup and restore. But the free methods seems to be 1.
old or
not working properly or
not a straight forward procedure or
very buggy.
I have gone e.g. through the 4 links given in
http://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog/cid/134680/HOW-TO-Move-a-DotNetNuke-installation
without any success.
Could you please help me 1.
how I could develop my website in local PC and then upload the
result in the server?
And later after adding a few new pages in the local PC how I could sync the result with the server?
Thank you very much in advance for your help and consideration.
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"when using SQL express, if I simply copy the entire local folder to production (including the APP_DATA folder, which contains the database)." ... How I could just save the newly registered users data in the website's database before copying entire local folder to production and restore this data after copying. In other way, I want to update the page contents and added designs but I don't want to loose newly registered users data between two consecutive website updates. I hope could find a working procedure for this because working online with server is very slow due to my connection speed and I have to keep a replica of the website in the local PC and add new pages or programs in the local PC and then update the result to the server when required. The specs of two systems are as follows:
local PC: Windows 8 Pro (with admin access)
Server (VPS): Windows web server 2008 (with admin access)
1) The easiest way to do this, when using SQL express, is to simply copy the entire local folder to production (including the APP_DATA folder, which contains the database)
2) Repeat step 1, but you'll lose any changes you made in production since the last time you pushed things up.
DNN doesn't really support this type of synchronization as a platform. They tried to offer it in their Enterprise product, but it worked so poorly they scrapped the feature.
I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server Management Studio as my database.
I need to upload a set of images to the server in order to display them upon certain triggers in my system. I know that images can be uploaded to the server by means of conversion of the images to binary.
How can I upload the image directly to the server without coding it? Or the only way to do this is to load all the images upon startup then upload all of them into the server? Will it affect the performance of the system and lags will occur upon startup?
I need to setup an application to scan a barcode from a packing slip and the associated fulfillment items on a windows CE 5.0 device and update the inventory on the server. I'm using VB.NET. However, what is the best way to interact with the database? Integration Services, ADO.NET, RDA... etc... it's a bit overwhelming trying to figure out what I should use to interact with the database. It's currently an Access database, but I imagine I'm probably going to need to migrate it to SQL Server or SQL Server Express.
I'd also need to print the packing slip to a network printer from the device. Is there any way to do this?
Sql CE is an excellent choice if your devices have to function for stretches in a disconnected state (i.e. not connected to the server). If you do use Sql CE, however, I strongly recommend not using RDA to persist local changes back to the server database (see this answer). In any event, RDA merge replication would require your server database to be Sql Server.
If your devices are always connected to the server through a wireless network, then you do not need a local database on the devices at all. Your devices can upload and download data through ASP.Net web services running on the server. Using DataSets for this communication is a good choice, since they are essentially database-agnostic (and thus your PDA code won't particularly care what database you're using on the server).
The web service approach will also let you handle the printing requirement. The PDA would send the relevant information to a web service method, which would then handle printing to the network printer.
My recommendation is to use SQL Server Compact edition (http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2008/en/us/compact.aspx) for storage engine, and ADO.net implementation of SqlCe in System.Data.SqlServerCe namespace (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlserverce.aspx) for code interaction. They are very well integrated with Visual Studio 2008, including designer support of strong-type dataset and run-time examination of data content on device etc.
No idea about the printing.
In all today scenarios, I would recommend using SQLite. It is the most used database today. Don't bind yourself to an database ecosystem. Just go here and search for "Precompiled Binaries for Windows CE (.NET Compact Framework)". Then you have a SQLite.Interop.*.dll and the System.Data.SQLite.dll. The SQLite.Interop.*.dll has to be placed and deployed besides your EXE file. The System.Data.SQLite.dll is the managed wrapper, that you have to reference in your project. Example: Create SQLite Database and table
SQL Server Compact is not compatible to most mobile platforms like iOS, Android and so on. Microsofts support for old target platforms is poor, leaving Windows CE with only SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 where you don't have some essential SQL functions like "LIMIT". Databases generated on the Desktop OS (> Windows XP) will also need to be converted on the device (long delay, when you first open the database), because MS is using different code pages on desktop and Windows CE.
This is Microsofts statement about RDA:
Because of design limitations, remote data access (RDA) will be removed in a future release. If you are currently using RDA, you should consider transitioning to Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET. If you were planning to use RDA in a new application, you should instead consider merge replication or Sync Services. Note that Sync Services is currently available only for the Windows Desktop Operating System.
Best way to interact with the database is just build the database on the server, compress it als deflate (available under both Desktop and Compact via System.IO.Compression) and send it to the device in whole. Plain and stupid. Most devices have poor import performance, so doing the import locally may take too much time, even if you have a fancy sync framework.
To transfer the database you can use a WCF service or just any web server using a HTTPS GET. Like so:
// ppp_peer is in most cases the active sync connected pc
string url = #"https://ppp_peer/export/database.db.gz";
string html = string.Empty;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(stream))
{
// Decompress your database here
}
To ORM your POCO objects just use something like https://bitbucket.org/twincoders/sqlite-net-extensions
However, if you have WLAN access everywhere, I would consider writing a browser application and using the mobile browser together with a web server for your needs. Just keep in mind, that Windows CE 5 based devices don't come with HTML 5 support out of the box. If you have a choice consider switching to a Android based device.